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Cheat sheet for nautilus shortcuts (Ubuntu 18.04)

You can see all evince shortcuts by using Ctrl + F1 or Ctrl + ?

Since the overview looks a bit messy so I extracted them and created a pdf file with all shortcuts on one page.

These are all shortcuts available in nautilus 3.26.3 which comes with Ubuntu 18.04 aka Bionic Beaver:

General

key function
Ctrl + N New window
Ctrl + W Close window or tab
Ctrl + F Search
Ctrl + D Bookmark current location
F1 Show help
Ctrl + ? / Ctrl + F1 Shortcuts

Opening

key function
⏎ / Ctrl + 0 Open
Ctrl + ⏎ Open in new tab
Shift + ⏎ Open in new window
Ctrl + Alt + 0 Open item location (search and recent only)
Shift + Ctrl + ↓ Open file and close window
Ctrl + O / Alt + ↓ Open with default application

Tabs

key function
Ctrl + T New tab
Ctrl + Page Up Go to previous tab
Ctrl + Page Down Go to next tab
Alt + 0 … 8 Open tab
Shift + Ctrl + Page Up Move tab left
Shift + Ctrl + Page Down Move tab right
Shift + Ctrl + T Restore tab
key function
Alt + ← Go back
Alt + → Go forward
Alt + ↑ Go up
Alt + ↓ Go down
Alt + Home Go to home folder
Ctrl + L Enter location
~ Location bar with root location
/ Location bar with home location

Editing

key function
Shift + Ctrl + N Create folder
F2 Rename
Delete Move to trash
Shift + Delete Delete permanently
Ctrl + x Cut
Ctrl + C Copy
Ctrl + V Paste
Ctrl + A Select all
Shift + Ctrl + I Invert selection
Ctrl + S Select items matching
Ctrl + Z Undo
Shift + Ctrl + Z Redo
Ctrl + I / Alt + ⏎ Show item properties